【推荐2】You've probably seen blind people walking with their gentle four-legged guides----or “seeing-eye” dogs. _________ what you probably didn't know is that about 80 years ago, a doctor and his patient discovered this entirely _________!

Many people were killed or injured during World War I. Near the end of that war, Dr. Gerhard Stalling and his _________ walked with a patient---a German soldier who had been _________ ----around hospital grounds in Germany.

While they were walking, the doctor was called away. The dog and the soldier stayed outside. A few moments later, when the doctor returned, the dog and the soldier were _________! Searching the paths worriedly, Dr. Stalling made an astonishing _________. His pet had led the soldier _________ around the hospital grounds. And together the two walked peacefully back toward the doctor.

_________ by what his dog could do, Dr. Stalling set up the first _________ in the world to train dogs as guides. Dorothy Eustis, an American woman __________ as a dog trainer for the International Red Cross in Switzerland, was __________ to study the way Stalling trained dogs and spent several months in his school. She came away so impressed that she wrote a(n) __________ about it for the Saturday Evening Post in America.

A blind American man, Morris Frank, __________ the article and he wrote to Dorothy and asked if she could train a dog for him. Dorothy took up the __________, and trained a dog, Buddy. She brought Frank over to Switzerland to join her in the training __________. Frank went back to the US with what many believe to be America's first guide dog in 1928.

【推荐3】Lately, I have been struggling to connect with my dad because our conversations have seemed unimportant to him. In a half-hearted attempt to find something that ______ him, I pulled out my phone and showed him a few ______ of Jay, my new pet rabbit.

“Did Mom tell you I got a bunny?” It was a strange question. To my surprise, my dad’s ______ were lifted. “A black bunny!” he called out, getting closer to ______ the photos. He wanted to know more. I hurried to find more photos, holding on to this ______ opportunity.

I shouldn’t be ______ that it was a bunny that broke through the ______ between my dad and me. Growing up, we never talked much. ______, our time together centered around animals, like catching crayfish at the river and caring for turtles and crabs. ______ animals has always been our thing.

A few months later, I came prepared with more photos and videos of Jay on my laptop so my dad could see them more ______. I had been ______ that his initial interest in Jay was a one-off event, but he ______ up again when I showed him the new stuff.

Our love for animals is the ______ that connects us. There was no ______ to start having deep conversations if that had never been our style, — just finding ______ together in a photo of a bunny was enough.

【推荐1】Thanksgiving Day was near. The first grade teacher gave her class a fun _________ —to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful. Most of the class might have economic problems and _________ to have a good meal, but still many would _________ the holiday with turkey and other traditional food of the season. These, the teacher thought would be the _________ of most of her students’ art. And they were. But Douglas made a different kind of picture. It was just an empty hand. Douglas was a _________ kind of boy. As other children played during the break, Douglas was _________ to stand close by the teacher’s side. One could guess at the pain Douglas _________ behind those eyes.

His abstract image captured (引起) the _________ of his peers. Whose hand could it be? One child guessed it was the hand of a farmer, because farmers raise _________. Another suggested a police officer, because the police protect and care for people. And the discussion went — __________ the teacher remembered the young artist himself. She paused at Douglas’ desk, bent down and asked whose hand it was. The boy looked __________ and murmured, “It’s yours.”

She __________ the time she had taken his hand and walked with him here or there. How often had she said, “Take my hand, Douglas, we’ll go outside.” Or “Let me show you how to __________ your pencil.” Douglas was most __________ for his teacher’s hand. In fact, people might not always say “thanks”. But they’ll remember the hand that __________.

【推荐3】Kyle Cassidy and three other members of a running group were stretching on the grounds of a university of Pennsylvania, waiting for the runners falling behind. They meet three days a week for a roughly 30﹣minute________. But on this day, it would not be their normal run.

A man________past them. Cassidy discovered why he was so fleet of foot when another man ran by, yelling, “Help! He took my phone and laptop!” At that moment, the group ran,______the suspect down the streets until he______in to a construction site(建筑工地). The runners spilt up. Cassidy ran around to the far side of the site to______the thief while the others______the neighborhood hoping he had dropped the things in a backyard.

No______. So they decided to ask people living there whether they'd seen the guy. They were in for a______when they knocked on the______of one row house.______to them, the man had already come out of the construction site﹣and was hiding behind a bush by that very house. As the owner opened the door, the______rushed out from behind the bush and right into the arms of campus police, who'd joined the chase shortly behind the runners.

The members of this running group are not______runners. But they do understand the______of a little exercise. “Running is typically a______sport where you turn fat cells into heat,” Cassidy said. “But occasionally it can be useful, and here was one of those______.”

【推荐3】I went to hunt for a job in a magazine company. For merely five editing _______, there were over 300 applicants, and only 50 could enter the final interview after the written test. On the day of the _______, I got well dressed without having breakfast. The company _______us to draw lots(抽签) to determine the interview_______. I was the 23rd. Before me was the 22^nd candidate who was a short and plain-looking girl wearing light blue _______clothes without using any make-up.

I did not_______that two hours had passed_______only 10 candidates had been interviewed. As I did not have breakfast, my stomach started to ache. Half an hour later, I could hardly _______my book and large drops of sweat rolled down my forehead.

_______, someone patted me on the shoulder. It was No. 22. ________ I didn’t have breakfast and that ________came to me, she bought me a bottle of milk and a piece of butter bread! I felt considerably________all over my heart, because I had not________ she would be so nice to help me, her rival, in such a(n)________ situation!

Finally, I________among all candidates and managed to be an editor.